I'm still relatively new to freebsd and I can't find the answer to one question : when I installed some ports (make install clean in the right directories) there was one that required fping as a dependency, so fping was also compiled and installed.

Before installing these ports (and fping) I read the UPDATING file where I found an info about fping ; I did exactly what was told there and everything looked good.

(Little) problem : now when I run pkg_version -v, it says :

Code:

fping+ipv6-2.4b2 ! Comparison failed
fping-3.4 = up-to-date with port

If I run portmaster -a, it says it needs to reinstall fping, so I let it do that, at the end portmaster says everything was done successfully but if I run pkg_version -v again, it gives the same result.

I tried to change the config options (cd /usr/ports/net/fping && make config), added the ipv6 options, reinstalled, then removed the ipv6 option, reinstalled : no effect.

The problem doesn't look very bad to me, but still, I'm quite curious about what's wrong there with fping.

I don't know anymore where to look for, maybe the answer is simple and my research is wrong ? Thanks for any hint !

This shows that very strangely, fping doesn't seem to be required at all. I don't understand then where it comes from : I don't know this package and am absolutely sure I did not install it myself.

So, could just removing fping be the solution of the problem ? This shouldn't break anything, according to pkg_info. But if it was put there during the install process, then it could be a bad idea though ?

I've noticed that ping is on the system but not in the port (does it mean ping belongs to the "base system" ?).

Not using pkg2ng yet.... fixes (such as your very first post) I think are harder to figure out with the use of the new pkg manager than v9's default (Unless someone puts up a flowchart with problems > solutions. OTOH I've not read all the man pages recently.)
Does the port actually work? In the meantime that is probably what matters...

I have no idea if fping works. I don't think I really need it. The install was done on a server by the provider so some things & settings and a little bit different from the "raw" install. I also have a "raw" freebsd on a local computer and I notice there is no fping installed on it. So I don't know what the fping on the server is for...

But it was a bad idea to switch directly to pkgng... Now the usual commands seem to work differently, for instance pkg_version -v give only one line :